Twitter

It’s rare that I consciously want to adopt something before I even try it. Usually, it goes more like this:

• Friend: x is really awesome.
• Nathan: I’ll bet.
• Friend: You should give it a try.
• Nathan: I’m sure.
• Friend: I’m serious! It’s much more fun/shiny/tasty than that y thing you’re using.
• Nathan: I like y.
• Friend: Gah! I give up!
• Nathan tries x.
• Nathan ends up loving x.

Sometimes this takes a couple tries, but it’s happened enough times that I can see the pattern. It’s why I’m using Linux and Google Reader, and how I developed a taste for salmon.

But this time is different. This time, I’ve had multiple occasions across the past weeks and even months where I’ve thought, “I wish I used x.” It’s been sort of weird.

I haven’t started using x before now mostly because I had thought about integrating something like it with my blog engine¹. But time has passed and I haven’t done so.

So, anyway, as you can tell from the title, x = Twitter. Nothing terribly epic, I know. Mostly I just want somewhere to jot down all the non sequiturs that pop into my head.

http://twitter.com/nex3

¹ I also kind of didn’t want to jump on the bandwagon with everyone else using x. But that’s a terrible reason.